Resolute Heart

n the days immediately following the Civil War, Yankee soldiers called bummers straggled home, emotionally ravaged, exhausted and hungry. Forced to steal what they needed along the way from weary families themselves devastated by war, they often left a wake of cruelty and violence in their wake. One such bummer impulsively grabs an eighteen-year-old Tennessee girl who is home alone with her young brother while their parents are gone to replenish needed supplies after the years of deprivatio...